Sponsored bills

Relates to death and felony crime reports in certain adult care facilities

Relates to death and felony crime reports in certain adult care facilities.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Requires health plans with coverage of out of plan medical services to provide certain information to insureds, subscribers and enrollees

Requires health plans providing coverage for out-of-network care to provide certain information to insureds, subscribers and enrollees.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to requiring a registered nurse on staff at facilities certified for enhanced assisted living or special needs assisted living

Relates to requiring a registered nurse on staff at facilities certified for enhanced assisted living or special needs assisted living.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to penalties for violations relating to residential care programs for adults

Relates to increasing penalties for violations relating to residential care programs for adults and children; and amends provisions relating to determination of violations.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to the licensing of acupuncturists and the practice of the profession of acupuncture

Relates to the licensing of acupuncturists and the practice of the profession of acupuncture; further establishes acupuncturists as mandatory reporters of suspected cases of child abuse and…

Richard GottfriedHigher Education Committee

Relates to the practice of registered professional nursing by a certified registered nurse anesthetist

Relates to profession of nurse anesthetist; defines "certified registered nurse anesthetist"; requires the department of education to certify such nurses.

Richard GottfriedHigher Education Committee

Relates to policies and procedures involving anatomical gifts; repealer

Relates to policies and procedures involving use and disposition of anatomical gifts; makes corresponding amendments.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to including accountable care organizations within the definition of a managed care provider

Includes accountable care organizations within the definition of a managed care provider.

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Relates to prescription forms and labels, interpretation services and patients with limited English proficiency

Relates to prescription forms and labels; requires interpretation services by chain pharmacies and mail order pharmacies for patients with limited English proficiency.

Richard GottfriedHigher Education Committee

Provides that liquor authority may include certain terms and conditions as part of various licenses for on-premises consumption to assure premises lawfully operated

Provides that the state liquor authority may, with the consent of the applicant, include certain terms and conditions as part of various licenses for on-premises consumption of beer and liquor for…

Richard GottfriedEconomic Development Committee

Relates to accountable care organizations and medical home multipayor programs

Relates to accountable care organizations and medical home multipayor programs designed to reduce health care costs and promote effective use of resources.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Makes provisions regarding small claims jurisdiction where claimant is a tenant or lessee of real property owned by defendant that is situated within certain limits

Amends various court acts (i.e., the uniform city court act, the uniform district court act, the uniform justice court act and the New York city civil court act) to provide for small claims…

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Provides for the exclusion of certain costs associated with home health care and the formula for calculating state reimbursements to such programs

Provides for the exclusion of certain costs associated with home health care and the formula for calculating state reimbursements to such programs.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to payment for police services provided to the New York city housing authority

Provides that the New York city housing authority shall not be required to pay for police services provided to the New York city housing authority by the city of New York.

Richard GottfriedHousing Committee

Prohibits regulations from permitting an owner to refuse to renew a lease on grounds that the housing is sought for personal use or occupancy; repealer

Prohibits certain regulations of the state division of housing and community renewal, for cities having a population of less than one million and towns and villages, from permitting an owner to…

Richard GottfriedHousing Committee

Provides funding for the library of The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York

Provides $200,000 for the library of The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the city of New York for making its library services available to the public.

Richard GottfriedLibraries And Education Technology Committee

Relates to medical home multipayor programs

Provides for the establishment of medical home multipayor programs to improve health care outcomes and efficiency through improved access, patient care continuity, and coordination of health services.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Expands the definition of major utility transmission facility to include certain facilities in which electric current is transformed

Expands the definition of major utility transmission facility to include a facility in which electric current is transformed from the transmission system to the distribution system or a facility…

Richard GottfriedCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Relates to investigations and inspections by the department of housing preservation and development in NYC

Permits the state division of housing and community renewal to authorize investigations and inspections of certain dwellings by the department of housing preservation and development in NYC.

Richard GottfriedHousing Committee

Allows nurse practitioners to perform any function in conjunction with the making of a diagnosis of illness or physical condition

Allows nurse practitioners to perform any function in conjunction with the making of a diagnosis of illness or physical condition.

Richard GottfriedHigher Education Committee

Relates to including certain written false statements within perjury

Includes certain written false statements within perjury where the instrument bears a notice that false statements are punishable.

Richard GottfriedCodes Committee

Relates to parentage of children born by medically-assisted reproduction

Relates to parentage of children born by medically-assisted reproduction; alters the term "artificial insemination" to be medically-assisted reproduction and defines such term to mean artificial…

Richard GottfriedJudiciary Committee

Repeals certain provisions regarding adoption of new or revised city charter proposed by charter commission which limit submission of questions to city's electors

Repeals certain provisions regarding the adoption of a new or revised city charter proposed by a charter commission which limit the submission of questions to a city's qualified electors; eliminates…

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Relates to the disclosure of medical records and clinical records

Establishes certain charges and fees authorized relative to requests for inspections and copying of medical records shall be deemed to be reasonable production expenses.

Richard GottfriedCodes Committee

Relates to insurer recovery from health care providers

Relates to insurer recovery from health care providers; provides that except where there is a reasonable belief of fraud or intentional misconduct, a health plan shall not determine an overpayment…

Richard GottfriedInsurance Committee

Establishes health care organization accountability for delay, failure or refusal to approve, provide, arrange or timely pay for certain health care services

Provides for accountability of "health care organizations" (i.e., entities, other than a health care provider, that approve, provide, arrange for or pay for health care services, including a health…

Richard GottfriedJudiciary Committee

Provides for cost allowances for investments in technology infrastructure for certain home health care programs

Provides for cost allowances for strategic capital investments in technology infrastructure for certain home health care programs.

Richard GottfriedCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Establishes certification procedures for the profession of nurse anesthesia

Establishes certification procedures for the profession of nurse anesthesia; provides for the issuance of a certification to practice as a certified registered nurse anesthetist upon the filing of…

Richard GottfriedHigher Education Committee

Requires managed care programs to establish procedures to assure participant access to dental services to which entitled, other than through managed care provider

Requires managed care programs to establish procedures to assure participant access to medical assistance dental services to which they are otherwise entitled, other than through the managed care…

Richard GottfriedSocial Services Committee

Relates to providing a preference in awarding state contracts to entities which provide employer sponsored health coverage

Provides a preference to entities which provide employer sponsored health coverage in awarding contracts to provide goods or services to state agencies, public authorities and public benefit…

Richard GottfriedGovernmental Operations Committee

Adds certain school based health services to list of services which need not be provided by a managed care program

Adds certain school based health services (i.e., services provided by certain clinics which provide primary health care services within an elementary or secondary public school setting) to the list…

Richard GottfriedSocial Services Committee

Establishes the prescription drug discount program; repealer

Establishes the prescription drug discount program; establishes that the purpose of the program is to provide access to prescription drugs to participants at a discounted price and to allow for the…

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act"

Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Establishes a quality incentive payment program for adult homes

Establishes a quality incentive payment program for adult homes.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Expands application of provisions relating to access to medical records to agents of health care providers and sets fees for reproduction of such records

Expands the application of the provisions of law relating to access to patient medical records to include restrictions on the agents of health care providers; includes pharmacists and midwives…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to establishment of adult care facilities

Relates to approval of applications for establishment of adult care facilities.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Allows for reimbursement of transportation costs for emergency care without prior authorization by the social services official

Allows for reimbursement of transportation costs for emergency care without prior authorization by the social services official including emergency medical transportation by an ambulance service…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Establishes an age-appropriate sex education grant program, to be referred to as the healthy teens act

Establishes an age-appropriate sex education grant program through the department of health to be a comprehensive age-appropriate program conducted by an eligible applicant; authorizes the…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Requires installation and use of ceiling lifts in hospitals and nursing homes

Requires installation and use of ceiling lifts for patient transfer in hospitals and nursing homes; further requires appropriate staff training in the use of ceiling lifts.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Provides Medicaid reimbursement for interpretation services provided by hospital inpatient and outpatient departments

Provides Medicaid reimbursement for interpretation services provided by hospital inpatient, outpatient and emergency department settings and in diagnostic treatment centers; provides further that…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to improving quality of certain adult care facilities

Relates to improving quality of certain adult care facilities.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Provides protections to parents who decline to have their children immunized on the basis of religious beliefs

Provides protections to parents who decline to have their children immunized on the basis of religious beliefs; allows a parent to submit an affidavit stating that the parent, parents or guardian…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Authorizes a general hospital to identify and use immediate measures to move admitted patients from emergency departments within four hours of being admitted

Authorizes a general hospital to identify and use immediate measures to move admitted patients from emergency departments within four hours of being admitted; provides that every general hospital…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to medicaid payment for co-payments due under Medicare Part D

Relates to medicaid payment for co-payments due under Medicare Part D; authorizes the commissioner of health to create a system to incorporate co-payments billed to a recipient under Medicare Part D…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to electronic prescriptions and generic substitution

Defines the terms electronic prescription and electronic signature and enacts provisions for their use.

Richard GottfriedSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Provides for the payment of capitated rates for services provided by assisted living programs, whether freestanding or not

Provides for the payment of capitated rates for services provided by assisted living programs, whether free-standing or not.

Richard GottfriedVetoed

Vetoed

Relates to restricting duties which may be assigned to specialist's assistants in radiology

Relates to restricting duties which may be assigned to specialist's assistants in radiology.

Richard GottfriedSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to health-related legal services programs

Establishes a health-related legal services program to make grants for the purpose of providing on-site legal services without charge to assist, on a voluntary basis, income eligible patients and…

Richard GottfriedSigned by Governor

Signed into law